As I promised you last week, here is the second part of the English translation of the interview that ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐ did to ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐21 + ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐๐ on the "๐ซ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ ๐" show of ๐น๐๐ ๐๐ 3 (Spain), on November 6, 2020, to introduce their new project and first album as ๐ด๐๐ ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐.
๐น๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐: https://bit.ly/2ULBTIc
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๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Perhaps the message could be that, which I think you have expressed at some point, of some phrase made from the release of the album: "air to breathe ", and that we have to take care of our planet.
Stefan, The image on the album cover means something too, doesn't it?
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Yes, I think we are very interested in where the planet is located in the universe and also the people, that we are each one, a universe in itself, right? And play a little with the image of so much space that there is and also that now we can't travel. So it's been kind of symbolic to be able to travel, if not physically, well, in the mind.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Miguel, also when we see a concert of Made For Humans, that there are dates out there in Russia, in Ukraine, they were going to have played at Sonorama (festival)... and I imagine that the thing will remain for 2021. Do these Made For Humans concerts also have an audiovisual component?
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Well, that remains to be seen because we really had ... is what you say, all the festivals last summer have messed up -for us, from all over the world, of course- and we were hoping that earlier this year we were going to do a concert in London, which would be a very special concert because it was a double concert. It was a Digital 21 + Stefan Olsdal concert, but it was also a Made For Humans concert, we were going to be the opening act for ourselves (says Miguel with a little laugh). So, it would be a beautiful concert in which we were going to be able to put together the repertoire because we haven't seen each other. So, as the situation has arisen again, we had to suspend it because we didn't dare to publish the sale of the tickets, that the tickets were sold and... At the last concert in London, that was in November last year and it was very very beautiful, people came from all over Europe, people came from Italy, from Germany, from France, it was very beautiful. We did an after party and we met people there and it was very nice to see the people who have traveled so much. And it was a very dangerous situation, to take out the tickets that people were going to buy, invest their money, buy a ticket and then, unintentionally, but they lost their money. So we have preferred to hold on and wait until the summer,when we hope the situation is resolved. So, we have the Sonorama and also the festival in Russia and some other festival, hehe.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: For those live shows, Stefan, everything is easier because here (with Made For Humans) you don't get to join up to eight (people) on stage, as it has been, but you two with your pots and that's it, nobody else, right?
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Hmm… well, that's what we say now but everything can change.
Hahahaha (everyone)
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Yes!
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Knowing ourselves, there is always one more layer to add, to do. Well, in the end, it is to make a more explained experience for the public and there we will try. So, if we can do something more special with, I don't know, more machines or more people, well, we will use them…
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Totally!
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง:...but so far the project we have is in the studio, it's only two, but as I said, everything can change.
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Yes, yes.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: And what is better: outdoors. Well, now speaking precisely about this health situation. Maybe the ideal thing for this music would be outdoors, even if it was raining cats and dogs and even if it was bitterly cold, but the ideal thing for this music would be an auditorium, a theater, people sitting, which is also becoming a classic now, the people sitting in the few concerts there are, isn't it Miguel?
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Yes, the truth is that our first concert as Digital21 and Stefan Olsdal was in Gran Vรญa, in the Telefรณnica Auditorium and it was the first in an auditorium with everyone sitting, a deathly silence, one of those silences that are very beautiful for music and that for this music... I mean, at that time it was very exciting with the songs on "Inside", but with this music, with the silences that there are many times between chord and chord or between note and note, it would be very very nice if we could take it to an auditorium, yes.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Pepa Calzada is going to hit the key, "Open Forest" is going to sound and now we are going to finish the talk with Made For Humans.
✨(๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ "๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐")✨
๐ถ https://youtu.be/cPjtlDcZOIA ๐ถ
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: I ask a few more little questions to my guests at a distance, today Stefan Olsdal / Placebo from London, from Madrid, Miguel / Digital 21.
Stefan, The second album of the other project is ready, right? In what will look or stop looking like "Complex" to "Inside"?
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Good question. Well, we always continue with… well, there are two of us, me and Miguel making the music, so it's not going to be totally different from "Inside", but it's like an evolution. Maybe… well, it's hard to say… It's a better record! hahaha.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: And, as in the case before, when I said if "Open Forest" gave an idea of what this album was - "Open Forest" which is still playing in the background - those two songs that you have already released Miguel, "High In The Sky" and "The New Thing", also give an idea of what "Complex" is going to be?
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Buff! ehh.. yes, in a certain way yes, because it's clear that it is a forceful album and at the same time preserves the arrangements of classical instruments, as in "High in the Sky", the church organ. Ehmm ... maybe at times it has some more club element and at times it's more forceful… It’s hard to say, for me it's hard to say, I agree with Stefan… At first I thought that "Inside" was there, that overwhelmed me a lot, but I think it is at least like "Inside" or better. Today, I like it more than "Inside" because it's the new one, right? It's ready to go, but like he (Stefan) said, it's hard for us to tell, It's a session too close to see. What is clear is that we are very happy with the result and that is very difficult because a second album is always more overwhelming than the first one and the third, I think, at least is what I have seen in my life with my own albums and also with the albums of others. Always the second album is the most overwhelming and in that sense this album, we both are very happy with it, so that's the most important thing.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Stefan, And have you dared to sing a little more or not? Or well, to sing? Haha.
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Haha, well I think so! :) I think that we both appear singing more on that album and ehhh ... maybe now we have both bands, let's say, we can push more to one extreme or the other, with the main band and Made For Humans. But yes, there were quite a few guest vocalists on the album "Inside" and on this one, yes, there are still, but also Miguel and I sang more.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Notice, Stefan, what I didn't know is that, before you met Brian and started the Placebo adventure, your very first story was precisely that, more or less, the electronic world. However, I met Miguel doing something else that was not what he later did with Digital 21; That is, you both have arrived at the same place but by different paths!
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Ha, well, yeah, yeah, I don't know... It's that the music takes you and no.. you can't control it. And well, starting with 13 or 12 years that I had, playing the drums and then the guitar and then I paid a lot of attention to electronic music and then I started my band, Placebo, which is more with guitars and then I don't know ... It's that music takes you and ...
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Sure.
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: ... yeah, here we are now, Miguel and I, after so many years doing other new adventures :) haha.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Yes. Pepa, let "Hikikomori" begin to play while we are finishing the talk with our protagonists, who are here today on "Disco Grande" Radio 3, Made For Humans.
https://youtu.be/IybWBFw6tDs 
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Ehhh… Short question and short answer. Miguel, What do you like the most? Remix or be remixed?
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Remix us! We remixed Timo Maas not much ago and it was a very nice experience. Also, Timo really liked the remix and it was really nice. :)
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Well Stefan, also short question and short answer. Notice how serious I am that at minute 58 of the program I ask you: When are we going to know something new about Placebo? Because this interview is with Made For Humans ;) Haha.
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Yes. Well we are already finishing the album with Placebo, so next year it comes out.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Next year, you will have a bunch of work next year!
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ & ๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Hahaha.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: You will not cope! Haha
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Totally!
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Well Miguel, Stefan, thank you very much for being there. It is always a pleasure that on Radio 3, by extension, on "Disco Grande" and in other programs, you always keep us up to date with your adventures. Congratulations on your work and looking forward to giving you a hug the next time we meet. Thank you so much. Regards.
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Thanks Julio, a hug.
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Thanks to you. Take care, a hug.
✨๐ถ("๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐" ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐)๐ถ✨
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Made For Humans, today the protagonists in "Disco Grande", four songs from the album have been played in the course of the talk with Stefan Olsdal and Miguel / Digital 21. Pepa Calzada on the other side of the glass at the technical controls... (End of recording) ๐️▪️
Thank you so much for reading dear Soulmates! Have a wonderful weekend. ☀️
❤️Lots of love & stay safe❤️
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๐ธ Photo Credits:
Pic 1 - Javier Alonso and Marina Sanz / Open Forest Screenshot / Edit made by Rita
Live photos - Javier Alonso and Marina Sanz
